Wesley J. Smith

Investor’s Business Daily opines that Proposition 71 has been a failure.  From its editorial:California’s Proposition 71 was intended to create a $3 billion West Coast counterpart to the National Institutes of Health, empowered to go where the NIH could not — either because of . . . . Continue Reading »

As a lawyer, I am increasingly alarmed by how the emotional narrative subsumes what should be hard law and fixed principle. Our example today: A  judge ruled that the killer of George Tiller—he is not yet adjudged a murderer, but admits the shooting—shall be allowed to defend . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s about “the science,” global warming non-deniers tell us repeatedly about the supposed crisis.  But you know it is really about “the politics” when they bring out “the children” to sell . . . . Continue Reading »

My new book, A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement is at the printer and will be available in early February (with a good discount at Amazon), a few weeks later than expected, but what else is new in publishing?  This is the final cover.I admit to being . . . . Continue Reading »

The pretense that the minions who participate in the Final Exit Network are mere counselors—rather than mobile assisted suicide clinics—was shattered in Phoenix when one facilitator pleaded guilty to assisting the suicide of a mentally ill woman.  From the story:Readers may remember . . . . Continue Reading »

Pathetic.  Now, as if conjured from that great sci fi flick Westworld, comes the sex robot. From the story:Mr Hines said: “She can’t vacuum, she can’t cook but she can do almost anything else if you know what I mean. “She’s a companion. She has a personality. She . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, Al Gore isn’t going to like this.  Some of the same scientists who predicted global warming, now see a coming big chill—because, waddya know—a lot of this is cyclical!  From the story:Among the most prominent of the scientists is Professor Mojib Latif, a leading . . . . Continue Reading »

I am very weary of the Green Crowd extolling China as a model or global responsibility.  The NYT’s official “Davos columnist,” Thomas Friedman, is at it again.  Today, he warns how China is leaping ahead in green technologies, which Friedman argues, we could top if only . . . . Continue Reading »

I have two friends—yes, it’s true, I have friends—who recently experienced disturbing neurological symptoms that suggested possible stroke or brain tumor. One lives in Canada.  This friend reported the symptoms immediately, and the physician ordered an MRI—which was . . . . Continue Reading »

The first ten years of the 2000s (please, no arguments over whether the first decade really ends this year) brought bioethics front and center into national and international prominence as never before.  Since this is the time for creating “top ten lists,” I pondered the matter over . . . . Continue Reading »